Sūta said: By performing this the following sinners become liberated form sins:—an ungrateful person, a slayer of brahmin, a destroyer of a child in the womb, a murderer of a warrior, a slayer of preceptor, a betrayer of faith, a thief, a gold-stealer, a defiler of the preceptor’s bed, a liquor-addict, a paramour, a low-caste woman, a ravisher of other men’s wives, a destroyer of brahmin’s property, a cow-killer, a matricide, a patricide, an idol-breaker and particularly the person who destroys liṅga images. If one who commits these sins is a brahmin, no matter if his sins are mental, verbal, physical or of any other type, even if he commits these a thousand times he is liberated from these by performing the aforesaid rites. Even if the sins are accumulated in hundreds of births he is liberated. This secret has been divulged by me in the context of lord Aghora. Hence a brahmin shall repeat the Aghora mantra perpetually for the expiation of sins.